The present article investigated how psychotherapists' sense of self-efficacy and their attitudes toward their clients' sexuality change after a short-term supervision program. The study examined participants' expectations from the short-term supervision program and their attitudes after participation in the program. It was found that the intervention program influenced the therapists' self-efficacy and attitudes toward sex therapy. Religious and non-religious psychotherapists have different needs and emphasis is placed on the differences in the attitudes expressed by religious and non-religious therapists. Both groups of psychotherapists encounter issues considered to be taboo by society. However, they react differently to these issues. Supervision programs must therefore be adapted to the population of psychotherapists participating in the short-term supervision program. The present article suggests that the solution to psychotherapists' unwillingness to talk about sexuality is found in group sessions managed by supervisors. It is concluded that psychotherapists' interactions with group members and the supervisor provide them with opportunities to learn about their attitude toward their patients' sexuality as well as their own, and promotes their openness to this controversial subject in the process.
The Sex Therapists' Attitudes questionnaire (STAQ) was developed to examine the reactive attitudes of sexual therapists towards the sexuality of their clients, with the purpose of offering a comprehensive instrument that taps therapists' attitudes regarding their clinical practice and their perceptions and reactions to issues of sexuality expressed and communicated by their clients. The STAQ examines the therapist's personal attitudes on sexual topics such as normative sexuality, sexual identity, trauma or sexual abuse. STAQ contains items that describe a wide variety of sexual situations, from normative sexuality to violent and perverted sexuality encountered in the clinic. Therapists completing this questionnaire are then required to examine their attitudes toward their clients in the clinical situation and rate their degree of agreement with the feelings, emotions and attitudes presented in the STAQ items. The items in the STAQ describe situations where a client presents in the therapy session a sexual issue of concern such as infidelity, sexual dysfunction, sexual abuse, sexual intercourse, masturbation, sexual orientation, and a variety of sexual habits, both normative and deviant. The questionnaire, which was validated by both psychologists and sexual and family therapists in Israel, has very high reliability (= .95).
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